Chapter 1
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1. Simon Peter, slave[1] and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained[2] with us the same kind of faith in the righteousness[3] of our God and Savior,[4] Jesus Christ:
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2. may grace and peace be multiplied to you[5] through a real knowledge of God[6] and of our Lord Jesus,[7]
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3. in that His divine power has granted to us all things pertaining to life and godliness, through the real knowledge of the One[8] who called us by glory and excellence,[9]
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4. through which[10] He has granted to us such precious and extraordinary promises, so that through these[11] you may become partakers of a divine nature,[12] having escaped the depravity that is in the world because of lust.[13]
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5. So for this very reason, making every effort,[14] to your faith add excellence,[15] and to the excellence knowledge,
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6. and to the knowledge self-control, and to the self-control perseverance, and to the perseverance godliness,
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7. and to the godliness brotherly affection, and to the brotherly affection love.[16]
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8. Because with these things existing and increasing in you, it makes you to be neither useless nor unfruitful in the real knowledge[17] of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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9. For he who lacks these things is blind, being so myopic, having forgotten the cleansing from his past sins.[18]
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10. Therefore, brothers, you should be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure,[19] for if you do these things you will never stumble.[20]
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11. Because in this way you will be granted the abundant entrance[21] into the unending kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.[22]
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12. So then, I will not neglect to keep reminding you about these things, though you know and are established in the present truth.
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13. Yes, I think it right to stir you up by a reminder, as long as I am in this ‘tent’,
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14. knowing that the shedding of my ‘tent’ is imminent, just as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.[23]
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15. Moreover I will take pains to provide a reminder of these things for you to have,[24] as needed, after my exit.
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16. Now then, we did not follow craftily devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; rather we were attentive eyewitnesses of His majesty
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17. —because He received from God the Father honor and glory when that Voice[25] was directed to Him by the Magnificent Glory, “This is my Son, the beloved, in whom I am always well pleased”—
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18. yes, we heard this Voice being uttered from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain.[26]
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19. And so we have the most reliable prophetic Word,[27] to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place,[28] until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts;[29]
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20. knowing this first, that no Prophecy of Scripture comes to be from private release;[30]
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21. for no Prophecy ever came by the will of man, rather holy men of God spoke as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.[31]
Chapter 2
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1. However, there were also false prophets among the people, just as, indeed, there will be false teachers among you, who will introduce[1] destructive heresies, even denying the Owner who bought them (bringing on themselves swift destruction).[2]
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2. And many will follow their licentious ways, because of which the way of the Truth will be defamed.[3]
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3. And in covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; since way back the judgment for such people is not slack, and their destruction will not sleep.
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4. Because if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but delivered them into chains of darkness, confining them in Tartarus[4] to be reserved for judgment,
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5. and did not spare the ancient world but preserved Noah, with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when He brought a flood on the world of the ungodly,
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6. and condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes (providing a warning to those who are intent on being ungodly),[5]
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7. while He rescued upright Lot, who was distressed by the licentious lifestyle of the wicked
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8. (for that upright man,[6] dwelling among them, tormented an upright soul from day to day by seeing and hearing lawless deeds)
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9. —then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of testings and to reserve the unjust under punishment[7] for the day of judgment,
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10. and especially those who go after the flesh in the lust for defilement,[8] and despise authority. Their depravity is ‘unreal’ They are audacious, self-willed; they are not afraid to revile majestic beings,[9]
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11. whereas angels, though being greater in might and power,[10] do not bring a reviling accusation against them before the Lord.[11]
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12. But these, as unreasoning animals, creatures of instinct made to be caught and destroyed, spouting off in matters of which they are ignorant, will be destroyed by their own depravity,[12]
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13. receiving the wages of unrighteousness. Counting it a pleasure to carouse in the daytime, they are stains and blemishes, reveling in their own deceptions[13] while they feast with you,
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14. having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin,[14] enticing unstable souls; having a heart trained in greediness they are children of a curse;[15]
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15. having forsaken the right way[16] they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
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16. but he got a rebuke for his wrongdoing—a mute donkey speaking with a human voice restrained the insanity of the prophet.[17]
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17. These are waterless springs, clouds driven by a storm,[18] for whom the blackest of the darkness[19] has been reserved forever.[20]
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18. Because speaking pompous words of emptiness they entice through fleshly lusts, through licentiousness, those who have actually escaped from those who are living in error,
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19. promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.
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20. For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the real knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter circumstances have become worse for them than the first ones.
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21. For it would have been better[21] for them not to have really known the way of the righteousness, than having really known it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
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22. But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: a dog returns to its own vomit and a bathed sow to wallowing in mud.
Chapter 3
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1. Dear ones, this is now a second letter I am writing to you[1] (in both of which I stir up your sincere mind by way of reminder),
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2. so that you remember the words that were spoken before by the holy prophets and the command of the Lord and Savior, through your apostles.[2]
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3. Knowing this first: in the last days mockers will come, living according to their own lusts
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4. and saying: “Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.”
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5. This because they deliberately ignore[3] that heavens[4] and land (out of water and through water)[5] had been existing from of old by the word of God,
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6. by which word the world[6] that then was perished, being flooded by water.[7]
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7. But the current heavens, and the earth, are being reserved by His word for fire,[8] being preserved until the day of judgment and perdition of godless men.[9]
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8. But dear ones, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.[10]
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9. The Lord is not delaying the promise, as some consider delay, but rather is patient toward us, not wishing anyone to perish but all to come into repentance.[11]
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10. However, the day of the Lord will come like a thief at night, in which heavens[12] will pass away with a whoosh, while the elements will be dissolved by burning—both the earth and the works in it will be completely consumed.
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11. Therefore, since all these things will be destroyed, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,
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12. expecting and hastening[13] the coming of the day of God, because of which heavens, being on fire, will be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
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13. Nevertheless, we look for new heavens and a new earth[14] in which dwells righteousness, according to His promise.
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14. Therefore, dear ones, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace,[15] faultless and blameless;
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15. and consider the longsuffering of our Lord to be salvation[16]—just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him,
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16. as also in all his epistles[17] (speaking in them of these things, about which there are some things hard to understand), which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures,[18] to their own destruction.[19]
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17. You therefore, dear ones, being forewarned, be on guard lest, being carried away by the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.[20]
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18. Rather, may you grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and into the eternal day.[21] Amen.